What is making my macbook pro crash and causing the screen to become distorted?

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I&#x27;ve posted before and thought my problem was solved.  Thanks to the folks who helped.  I&#x27;m still having the problem with certain programs causing my screen to split in two and become distorted.  Sometimes I&#x27;m able to force quite and others I&#x27;m not.  Just a few days ago, I tried to run iPhoto.  The screen did the crazy distorted thing and the computer crashed.  The screen locked up and I had to hard boot it.  Today, I tried to run iPhoto again.  This time I got the error message from Apple and the computer rebooted.  This was the error message I received:Interval Since Last Panic Report:  246719 secPanics Since Last Report:          1Anonymous UUID:                    E36DFC39-BB71-0883-06EB-CFA1505350C9Tue Sep  3 22:26:50 2013Machine-check capabilities 0x0000000000000c09: family: 6 model: 42 stepping: 7 microcode: 26 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2635QM CPU @ 2.00GHz 9 error-reporting banks threshold-based error status present extended corrected memory error handling presentProcessor 0: machine-check status 0x0000000000000005: restart IP valid machine-check in progressMCA error-reporting registers: IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0980000000000000 invalid IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0xbe00000000800400 valid  MCA error code:            0x0400  Model specific error code: 0x0080  Other information:         0x00000000  Threshold-based status:    Undefined  Status bits:   Processor context corrupt   ADDR register valid   MISC register valid   Error enabled   Uncorrected error IA32_MC3_ADDR(0x40e): 0x00003f7f8fe3d958 IA32_MC3_MISC(0x40f): 0x000000000003ffff IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC6_STATUS(0x419): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC7_STATUS(0x41d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC8_STATUS(0x421): 0x0020000000000000 invalidProcessor 1: machine-check status 0x0000000000000004: machine-check in progressMCA error-reporting registers: IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0980000000000000 invalid IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0xbe00000000800400 valid  MCA error code:            0x0400  Model specific error code: 0x0080  Other information:         0x00000000  Threshold-based status:    Undefined  Status bits:   Processor context corrupt   ADDR register valid   MISC register valid   Error enabled   Uncorrected error IA32_MC3_ADDR(0x40e): 0x00003f7f8fe3d958 IA32_MC3_MISC(0x40f): 0x000000000003ffff IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC6_STATUS(0x419): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC7_STATUS(0x41d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC8_STATUS(0x421): 0x0020000000000000 invalidProcessor 2: machine-check status 0x0000000000000004: machine-check in progressMCA error-reporting registers: IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0980000000000000 invalid IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0xbe00000000800400 valid  MCA error code:            0x0400  Model specific error code: 0x0080  Other information:         0x00000000  Threshold-based status:    Undefined  Status bits:   Processor context corrupt   ADDR register valid   MISC register valid   Error enabled   Uncorrected error IA32_MC3_ADDR(0x40e): 0x00003f7f8e9feb37 IA32_MC3_MISC(0x40f): 0x000000000003ffff IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC6_STATUS(0x419): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC7_STATUS(0x41d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC8_STATUS(0x421): 0x0020000000000000 invalidProcessor 3: machine-check status 0x0000000000000005: restart IP valid machine-check in progressMCA error-reporting registers: IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0980000000000000 invalid IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0xbe00000000800400 valid  MCA error code:            0x0400  Model specific error code: 0x0080  Other information:         0x00000000  Threshold-based status:    Undefined  Status bits:   Processor context corrupt   ADDR register valid   MISC register valid   Error enabled   Uncorrected error IA32_MC3_ADDR(0x40e): 0x00003f7f8e9feb37 IA32_MC3_MISC(0x40f): 0x000000000003ffff IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC6_STATUS(0x419): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC7_STATUS(0x41d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC8_STATUS(0x421): 0x0020000000000000 invalidProcessor 4: machine-check status 0x0000000000000004: machine-check in progressMCA error-reporting registers: IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0980000000000000 invalid IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0xbe00000000800400 valid  MCA error code:            0x0400  Model specific error code: 0x0080  Other information:         0x00000000  Threshold-based status:    Undefined  Status bits:   Processor context corrupt   ADDR register valid   MISC register valid   Error enabled   Uncorrected error IA32_MC3_ADDR(0x40e): 0x00003f7f8ef2e063 IA32_MC3_MISC(0x40f): 0x000000000003ffff IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC6_STATUS(0x419): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC7_STATUS(0x41d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC8_STATUS(0x421): 0x0020000000000000 invalidProcessor 5: machine-check status 0x0000000000000005: restart IP valid machine-check in progressMCA error-reporting registers: IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0980000000000000 invalid IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0xbe00000000800400 valid  MCA error code:            0x0400  Model specific error code: 0x0080  Other information:         0x00000000  Threshold-based status:    Undefined  Status bits:   Processor context corrupt   ADDR register valid   MISC register valid   Error enabled   Uncorrected error IA32_MC3_ADDR(0x40e): 0x00003f7f8ef2e063 IA32_MC3_MISC(0x40f): 0x000000000003ffff IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC6_STATUS(0x419): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC7_STATUS(0x41d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC8_STATUS(0x421): 0x0020000000000000 invalidProcessor 6: machine-check status 0x0000000000000004: machine-check in progressMCA error-reporting registers: IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0980000000000000 invalid IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0xbe00000000800400 valid  MCA error code:            0x0400  Model specific error code: 0x0080  Other information:         0x00000000  Threshold-based status:    Undefined  Status bits:   Processor context corrupt   ADDR register valid   MISC register valid   Error enabled   Uncorrected error IA32_MC3_ADDR(0x40e): 0x00003f7f8ff81ab9 IA32_MC3_MISC(0x40f): 0x000000000003ffff IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC6_STATUS(0x419): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC7_STATUS(0x41d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid Package 0 logged: IA32_MC8_STATUS(0x421): 0x0020000000000000 invalidProcessor 7: machine-check status 0x0000000000000005: restart IP valid machine-check in progressMCA error-reporting registers: IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0980000000000000 invalid IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0xbe00000000800400 valid  MCA error code:            0x0400  Model specific error code: 0x0080  Other information:         0x00000000  Threshold-based status:    Undefined  Status bits:   Processor context corrupt   ADDR register valid   MISC register valid   Error enabled   Uncorrected error IA32_MC3_ADDR(0x40e): 0x00003f7f8ff81ab9 IA32_MC3_MISC(0x40f): 0x000000000003ffff IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC6_STATUS(0x419): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC7_STATUS(0x41d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid IA32_MC8_STATUS(0x421): 0x0020000000000000 invalidpanic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff800e0b8ec9): "Machine Check at 0xffffff800e0ce40f, registers:
" "CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x000000007a232000, CR3: 0x0000000029615020, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0
" "RAX: 0x000000008001003b, RBX: 0xffffff802f3d5490, RCX: 0xffffff800e6c1580, RDX: 0xffffff800e6bfc28
" "RSP: 0xffffff81df713df0, RBP: 0xffffff81df713ef0, RSI: 0x000000316f7d995f, RDI: 0xffffff800e601f20
" "R8:  0x0000000000000031, R9:  0x00000000075b8fe2, R10: 0xffffff81ce82ddc0, R11: 0xffffff800e6bac01
" "R12: 0xffffff81ce82dfe8, R13: 0x0000000000000000, R14: 0xffffff802e3d5310, R15: 0xffffff800e3bacf0
" "RFL: 0x0000000000000082, RIP: 0xffffff800e0ce40f, CS:  0x0000000000000008, SS:  0x0000000000000010
" "Error code: 0x0000000000000000
"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.24.15/osfmk/i386/trap_native.c: 280Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address0xffffff800df0bd20 : 0xffffff800e01d626 0xffffff800df0bd90 Model: MacBookPro8,2, BootROM MBP81.0047.B27, 4 processors, Intel Core i7, 2 GHz, 16 GB, SMC 1.69f4Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000, Intel HD Graphics 3000, Built-In, 512 MBGraphics: AMD Radeon HD 6490M, AMD Radeon HD 6490M, PCIe, 256 MBMemory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x859B, 0x435438473353313333394D2E4D3136464444Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x859B, 0x435438473353313333394D2E4D3136464444AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xD6), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.100.17)Bluetooth: Version 4.1.4f2 12041, 2 service, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial portsNetwork Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1Serial ATA Device: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB, 1 TBSerial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in), apple_vendor_id, 0x8509, 0xfa200000 / 3USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424  (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfa100000 / 2USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, apple_vendor_id, 0x0245, 0xfa120000 / 5USB Device: BRCM2070 Hub, 0x0a5c  (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0xfa110000 / 4USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x821a, 0xfa113000 / 7USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424  (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfd100000 / 2USB Device: iPhone, apple_vendor_id, 0x12a8, 0xfd120000 / 4USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0xfd110000 / 3Can anyone please help me.  Thanks.

Linc Davis · Answer

Reinstall the original memory and see whether there&#x27;s any improvement. Be careful not to touch the gold contacts. Clean them with a mild solvent such as rubbing alcohol. Aftermarket memory must exactly match the technical specifications for your model. Memory that is either slower or faster than specified may be incompatible.The Apple Hardware Test or Apple Diagnostics, though generally unreliable, will sometimes detect a fault. A negative test can&#x27;t be depended on. Run the extended version of the test.